Cannes 2010’s Top 10 New Faces: Introducing Mark Womack

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May 27, 2010

#1. Mark Womack

Last year Ken Loach introduced us to Steve Evets in Looking for Eric, and this year, topping this top ten list of New Faces from the Cannes Film Festival is Mark Womack – also a veteran actor for the small screen, but pretty much a beginner on the silver screen. In Route Irish, Womack takes on the angry role of Frankie – a contractor in Iraq who senses that his close friend’s death isn’t as what officials are claiming it to be. Frankie descends into madness, applies his own code of conduct and sets off on a war path of his own – the perf is raw just like many characters in Loach’s films.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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